Digital elevation model of Sitka Harbor and the city of Sitka, Alaska: Procedures, data sources, and quality assessment

The 0.53-second Sitka Alaska Digital Elevation Model provides bathymetric and topographic data in ASCII raster format of 0.53-second resolution in geographic coordinates.

Tags: Alaska, State of, Baranof Island, Bathymetry, City and Borough of Sitka, Digital Elevation Model, All tags... Japonski Island, Raster Image, Sitka, Sitka Sound, Southeast Alaska, Topography, Tsunami, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data collected in the eastern Gulf of Alaska during USGS Field Activity 2016-625-FA using a Reson 7160 multibeam echosounder

Marine geophysical mapping of the Queen Charlotte Fault in the eastern Gulf of Alaska was conducted in 2016 as part of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to understand the morphology and subsurface geology of the entire Queen Charlotte system. The Queen Charlotte fault is the offshore portion of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault: a major structural feature that extends more than 1,200 kilometers from the Fairweather Range of southern Alaska to northern Vancouver Island, Canada. The data published in this data release were collected along the Queen Charlotte Fault between Cross Sound and Noyes Canyon, offshore southeastern Alaska from May 18 to...

Tags: ADFG, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, CMHRP, All tags... Chatham Strait, Chichagof Island, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cross Sound, Elevation, Geophysics, GeoscientificInformation, Gulf of Alaska, Heceta Knoll, Icy Point, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Oceans, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Queen Charlotte Fault, R/V Medeia, Reson 7160, TerraSond, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Yakobi Sea Valley, bathymetry, depth, elevation, multibeam, seafloor, Fewer tags

Multibeam bathymetric data collected in the eastern Gulf of Alaska during USGS Field Activity 2016-625-FA using a Reson 7160 multibeam echosounder (10 meter resolution, 32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 8 WGS 84, WGS 84 Ellipsoid)

Marine geophysical mapping of the Queen Charlotte Fault in the eastern Gulf of Alaska was conducted in 2016 as part of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to understand the morphology and subsurface geology of the entire Queen Charlotte system. The Queen Charlotte fault is the offshore portion of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault: a major structural feature that extends more than 1,200 kilometers from the Fairweather Range of southern Alaska to northern Vancouver Island, Canada. The data published in this data release were collected along the Queen Charlotte Fault between Cross Sound and Noyes Canyon, offshore southeastern Alaska from May 18 to...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: ADFG, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, CMHRP, All tags... Chatham Strait, Chichagof Island, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cross Sound, Elevation, GeoscientificInformation, Gulf of Alaska, Heceta Knoll, Icy Point, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Oceans, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Queen Charlotte Fault, R/V Medeia, Reson 7160, TerraSond, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Yakobi Sea Valley, bathymetry, depth, elevation, multibeam, seafloor, Fewer tags

Multibeam backscatter data collected in the eastern Gulf of Alaska during USGS Field Activity 2016-625-FA using a Reson 7160 multibeam echosounder (10 meter resolution, 8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 8 WGS 84, WGS 84 Ellipsoid)

Marine geophysical mapping of the Queen Charlotte Fault in the eastern Gulf of Alaska was conducted in 2016 as part of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to understand the morphology and subsurface geology of the entire Queen Charlotte system. The Queen Charlotte fault is the offshore portion of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault: a major structural feature that extends more than 1,200 kilometers from the Fairweather Range of southern Alaska to northern Vancouver Island, Canada. The data published in this data release were collected along the Queen Charlotte Fault between Cross Sound and Noyes Canyon, offshore southeastern Alaska from May 18 to...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: ADFG, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, CMHRP, All tags... Chatham Strait, Chichagof Island, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cross Sound, GeoTIFF, GeoscientificInformation, Gulf of Alaska, Heceta Knoll, Icy Point, ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Oceans, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Queen Charlotte Fault, R/V Medeia, Reson 7160, TerraSond, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Yakobi Sea Valley, backscatter, multibeam, seafloor, time-series, Fewer tags

Multichannel sparker seismic-reflection data between Cross Sound and Dixon Entrance, offshore southeastern Alaska, collected from 2016-05-17 to 2016-06-12 during field activity 2016-625-FA

Multichannel sparker (MCS) seismic-reflection data were collected along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault between Cross Sound and Dixon Entrance, offshore southeastern Alaska from 2016-05-17 to 2016-06-12. Data were collected aboard the Alaska Department of Fish and Game R/V Medeia, and recorded using a 32 channel GeoEel digital streamer, an Applied Acoustics power supply, and a SIG SLP 790 Sparker Electrode. MCS profiles were collected coincident with multibeam data collected at higher survey speeds (5-6 knots), which reduced the MCS data quality.

Categories: Data; Tags: Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, Bathymetry and Elevation, CMGP, Chatham Strait, All tags... Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Cross Sound, Dixon Entrance, Elevation, Gulf of Alaska, Heceta Knoll, Mount Edgecumbe, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Oceans, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Sitka, State of Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Yakobi Valley, geoscientificinformation, seismic reflection profiling, sub-bottom profiling, Fewer tags

Tsunami inundation maps of Sitka, Alaska

The purpose of this study is to evaluate potential tsunami hazards for the community of Sitka. We numerically modeled the extent of inundation from tsunami waves generated by near- and far-field tectonic sources. We performed numerical modeling of historic events at Sitka, such as the tsunami triggered by the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, and the tsunami waves generated by the recent 2011 Tohoku and 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquakes. Hypothetical tsunami scenarios include variations of the extended 1964 rupture, megathrust earthquakes in the Alaska Peninsula region and in the Cascadia subduction zone, and a thrust earthquake in the region of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault zone. Results of numerical modeling combined...

Tags: Active Fault, Alaska Earthquake 1964, Alaska, State of, Baranof Island, Bathymetry, All tags... Coastal, Coastal and River, Earthquake, Emergency Preparedness, Engineering, Engineering Geology, Faulting, Faults, Flood, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Hazards, Inundation, Japonski Island, Modeling, Seismic Hazards, Sitka, Sitka Quadrangle, Sitka Sound, Southeast Alaska, Tides, Tsunami, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

 A bathymetric terrain model of multibeam sonar data collected between 2005 and 2018 along the Queen Charlotte Fault System in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska from Cross Sound, Alaska to Queen Charlotte Sound, Canada. (30 meter resolution, 32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 8 WGS 84, WGS 84 Ellipsoid)

This data publication is a compilation of six different multibeam surveys covering the previously unmapped Queen Charlotte Fault offshore southeast Alaska and Haida Gwaii, Canada. These data were collected between 2005 and 2018 under a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Geological Survey, Natural Resources Canada, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The six source surveys from different multibeam sonars are combined into one terrain model with a 30-m resolution. A complementary polygon shapefile records the extent of each source survey in the output grid.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, CCGS Vector, CHS, CMHRP, All tags... Canada, Canadian Hydrographic Service, Chatham Strait, Chichagof Island, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cross Sound, Dixon Entrance, Elevation, GeoscientificInformation, Gulf of Alaska, Haida Gwaii, Heceta Knoll, Icy Point, Moresby Canyon, NOAA, NOAA Ship Fairweather, NRC, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Natural Resources Canada, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Oceans, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Queen Charlotte Fault, Queen Charlotte Sound, R/V Kilo Moana, R/V Medeia, R/V Sikuliaq, R/V Solstice, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Hawai'i, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Yakobi Sea Valley, bathymetry, depth, elevation, geology, geophysics, geospatial datasets, multibeam sonar, seafloor, Fewer tags

Trackline navigation collected with a Reson 7160 Multibeam echosounder in the eastern Gulf of Alaska during USGS Field Activity 2016-625-FA (Esri polyline shapefile, UTM 8 WGS 84)

Marine geophysical mapping of the Queen Charlotte Fault in the eastern Gulf of Alaska was conducted in 2016 as part of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to understand the morphology and subsurface geology of the entire Queen Charlotte system. The Queen Charlotte fault is the offshore portion of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault: a major structural feature that extends more than 1,200 kilometers from the Fairweather Range of southern Alaska to northern Vancouver Island, Canada. The data published in this data release were collected along the Queen Charlotte Fault between Cross Sound and Noyes Canyon, offshore southeastern Alaska from May 18 to...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: ADFG, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, CMHRP, All tags... Chatham Strait, Chichagof Island, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cross Sound, GeoscientificInformation, Gulf of Alaska, Heceta Knoll, Icy Point, Location, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Queen Charlotte Fault, R/V Medeia, Reson 7160, TerraSond, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Yakobi Sea Valley, multibeam, seafloor, tracklines, Fewer tags

Multibeam bathymetry data between Cross Sound and Dixon Entrance, offshore southeastern Alaska, collected from 2016-05-17 to 2016-06-12 during field activity 2016-625-FA

Multibeam bathymetry data were collected along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault between Icy Point and Dixon Entrance, offshore southeastern Alaska from 2016-05-17 to 2016-06-12. Data were collected aboard the Alaska Department of Fish and Game R/V Medeia using a Reson SeaBat 7160 multibeam echosounder, Reson 7k Control Center, and HYPACK. This data release contains approximately 4,600 square kilometers of multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data, organized into zip files for each Julian Day of the survey.

Categories: Data; Tags: ADFG, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, Barnegat Inlet, All tags... Bathymetry, Bathymetry and Elevation, CMGP, Chatham Strait, Chichagof Island, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Continental Margins, Cross Sound, Dixon Entrance, Elevation, Heceta Knoll, Mount Edgecumbe, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Oceans, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific OceanPlace_Keyword: Gulf of Alaska, R/V Medeia, Reson 7160, Sitka, TerraSond, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Yakobi Valley, Yakutat, bathymetry, depth, geoscientificInformation, multibeam echo sounder, multibeam sonar, sea-floor characteristics, seafloor, Fewer tags